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Welcome to Channel 9. We are five guys at Microsoft who want a new level of communication between Microsoft and developers. We believe that we will all benefit from a little dialogue these days. This is our first attempt to move beyond the newsgroup, the
blog, and the press release to talk with each other, human to human.

Looks good.. I'm very happy to see MS using rich media, not just here but such as the .NET show and MSDN T.V. I will be interested in seeing if the community ends up needing any kind of democratic policing measures.. ala /. karma.

If it's even remotely possible, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE provide links to the videos; don't embed them into the pages. I don't want to install the latest and greatest WM9, and I'm constantly getting asked to download something from Microsoft. Four times
on the front page!

If I do install WM9, will I automagically download 4 videos when I come to the front page, or when my local cache expires? Really, I don't need to use the bandwidth, I just have some developer questions I need answered.

We hear you loud and clear on the video delivery and viewing options and are going to evolve this in answer to your feedback. Browser issues will be fixed as well. Yes, we understand choice. Just had to prioritize to ship.

We have a little saying around here ... he who ships gets to ship again.

Very nice to see. While I have always known that the folks at the monster that is Microsoft are in fact folks like myself, that have the same sorts of desires and drives it will definately be nice to get proof and to have a dialog of sorts with those folks.
My own situation is so devoid of conversation with the thinkers of the industry I view this as a sort of replacement for that, in many ways a better replacement for that conversation that is lacking now.

I think you're question about what is your greatest fear of failure for this project is valid.

I often ask that question when I'm building a new website or application. It's important to ask "Who cares?" and "Why are we doing this?"

My take is that you want to do this to connect with developers and build relationship. That can't happen in a vacuum. I think that if you connect with developers and build relationship, you'll be way ahead of the game and will in turn build loyalty, trust and
respect.

Well my brothers, this is a great site. I really see a great opportunity for all of us. This is the time for sharing resources and things that we had always waited for. Please, let's make from this Site a useful tool for this giant community around
the world. Thanks 4 this great idea and all you may be sure that this will be in benefit of us.

"We don't know if we're actually going to create something and release it, so why tell people about it?"

When I ran a beta site, I used to have 20k+ people a day coming to my site for that exact reason. It's ANY pre-release features - whether or not they'll make it into the final product - which people get the most excited about.

In fact, things like the Redshark program - Codename Neptune and Odyssey - are still some of the most talked about things in the beta scene, excluding Longhorn. Things like Activity Centers and the Sideshow should've been shown off back then, and things like
DCE and MIL should be shown off now.

These are the sort of things which keep people up at night; mainly out of frustration that they're being "kept in the dark" about them, somewhat. Not to mention all of the community efforts to unlock these features - DCE being a great case point to look at.
Spread across about 4 large community forums there've been close to 7 or 8 individual attempts to unlock and enable DCE in build 4029, 4051, and 4053; the latter two from backporting off the core DLLs from 4029. If MS were to come out and release the info
themselves, it would give developers and beta enthusiasts alike a chance to play with these features before WinHEC.

Guys - This was a fantastic idea, especially for someone from Australia, like me. I'm on the other side of the world and just from this, it brings you to me... WOW (maybe we need to call it 'No More Gaps' (I hope that they sell that in the US??)

Would be great if it could be two-way, like a confrenece call, having and seeing other viewers being streamed back out as well. Could be kewl for you / us to see what others are doing??

I'm over-flowin' with things that would be kewl for you guys to cover, and I haven't had any couch mixture..
Very kewl.

now, that you mentioned about us expressing our wishes in the open, i will send you my first one...

i would like to know how could a compiler engineer (obviously not working for Microsoft) have access to (let's say, something cool like) Phoenix source code (or at least interfaces), under nda, at evening time. is this possible? does one have to sign an nda
for that? does one have to get more rain for something like that to happen? the question is as simple as the purpose (getting closer to the common backend, you can hook more frontends into Phoenix, in a completely open and proactive manner...) which should
sound good to you too... more supported languages, more outstanding tools, healthier the platform, etc...

ps
i heard alot of voices like "oh, this is cool" or "this rocks"... but i am trying to see if this site goes beyond having a nice chit-chat with happy passangers my 7 years from Home sound more like "hey, we have work to do!" so... can we do it or not...
// just my 2c...

I also want to create a wiki and in this regard I need the help and suggestions of someone who have done all such stuff. Can you please tell me that what are the prerequisits for starting a wiki site.

And which web programming languages' expertise is required for developing this wiki. Or is it something like an application which is running at the back end of these web pages? If I can get the answers of my questions then I will be grateful to you guys.

Thanking you in advance.
Hope i can get a positive reply from your end....

Welcome to Channel 9. We are five guys at Microsoft who want a new level of communication between Microsoft and developers. We believe that we will all benefit from a little dialogue these days. This is our first attempt to move beyond the newsgroup, the
blog, and the press release to talk with each other, human to human.

Great web, I really enjoy the videos. Been downloading them and watching them on my T.V.

Request: Could you prepend a serial # to the names of the videos? That way it would be easier to know which ones I've downloaded and which ones I have yet to download. As for now, it's hit and miss. Thanks in advance,

To me, it is getting easier to shine as a company if you just focus on the support of your product on the various levels that are available (take Channel9 for instance).

Why?

I believe so because I see more and more companies (very apparent in the "Brick-and-Mortar" landscape) falling behind on customer support.

This happened recently with a product I bought and posted a message (polite, to the point) about a feature that was to be added in (my suggestion). The developer has yet to respond to my post. And he is slow to respond on other posts.

This is just one example in an endless cycle of poor customer support, as far as I am concerned.

So, to come full-circle... why I believe it is easier to shine as a company now-a-days? Start by genuinely caring (again?) about your customers.

Just think, it's pretty dang hard for the average, decent person to bad-mouthed a company if they are being treated constantly as a team member.

I enjoyed this video and appreciate what you five guys are setting out to accomplish!

Would like to suggest that yours places legends (Spanish). So that in the ones of Latin America let us can have access to the dialogues in the videos. The English is very fast in videos .

I am certain of that this resource will be of great important for all with loves technology and the technologies of the Microsoft.
Sory, but my English is very bad. The important one is to participate is not same?

Great idea! Also just had to say, love the little Microsoft employee buttons! Don't think I've ever seen anything like this with corporation employees actually talking to everyone on a public site! It's great

Good work. I entered here the first once and it seems me that this place includes a lot of interesting materials, particularly for a Video. It will be better if the my opinion will encourage you to update this website very often.

I really like this. My initial take on Channel 9 is that it's a very innovative step in company/partner/customer communication. Partner in that scenario would be the average developer looking to learn about what's going to be hot in the coming months ahead
that would have otherwise not crossed his radar.

I've read on blogs and other posts that Scoble (sorry if I misspelled it) is arrogant or has an inflated ego. After seeing this I want to state that I completely disagree. You all seem like nice guys.

In this video, you all seem to be soliciting requests for content so, I will go ahead and make mine here. I am an Enterprise Java developer with some distant (and rapidly fading) experience in Linux and embedded development. I find the windows (com, .net,
win32, mfc, Longhorn (especially longhorn)) platform to be both intrigueing and exceptionally productive when I am playing around with Visual Studio. I would like to see a walkthrough of an enterprise web application designed in .NET/VS. This could be done
perhaps as both a tutorial (which, as far as I can tell, would be very non-standard for c9) and, as a product showcase for new features in Whidbey.

Also, I think it might work well if you where to expand the channel-9 concept or, a variation of the concept to other aspects of the MSDN community. My initial thought is that you could release short 'over-the-shoulder' videos of Microsoft Developers building
intro/adv apps with the new technology releases. I think the timing for this is good as well. As far as I can tell, Microsoft's rate of developer tools and technology releases (such as Avalon CTP and WSE 2.0) have increased in the last 6 months or so and,
I would imagine the rate of acceleration is only going to continue increasing as the "Longhorn Wave" approaches(?). A short video showing how to build a quick-and-dirty app with the the associated release would go a long way I think in reducing learning curves
and, ultimately making the releases more accessible to a wider audience of developers.

Either way, I definately think Microsoft has hit a home-run with Channel-9. This helps developers feel a sense of connectivity with individuals at Microsoft and increases familiarization with new products and features in a fun and informative way. Thank you
for making these videos.

The feedback I have for you guys is in most of the videos, the guy who asks the question is not always audible. One thing though his laugh resonates even after the video.

I have recently sent my resume for MS MED group and am waiting. I saw a couple of videos on Windows+Mobile category.

Is there any video or anything in the pipeline that is being planned to show case the MED group's developments OR projects being worked on?

The one video where Ori showed/introduced VS team during crunch mode was exciting. The coolest part was the automation testing/download of firmware on all those devices. I do that here as well, but not on that scale. Pretty coool.
Thanks

this is a really great Idea.
I like the videos you guys create.
It really helps me to stay up to date and to see what Microsoft is doing at the moment.
It is also great that you inform about a lot of minor topics. It is often times difficult to find information about those somewhere else.
Go on like that!

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